Pour grease down the sink and it quickly hardens into a congealed, gluey mess. The result? Clogged pipes, backed-up sewers, and expensive repairs. It doesn't matter how much hot water or soap you pour down after it. Sooner or later it solidifies.

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Whether it's cooking oil, shortening, butter, lard or the drippings from meat, grease is supposed to stop things from sticking together. But when grease goes down the drain, something entirely different happens. It hardens into a congealed, gluey mess.

Grease can harden when travelling down pipes and often picks up other materials along the way, creating large solid chunks of muck that hurt our pipes and your wallet. Metro Vancouver residents spend $2.7 million every year to repair damage caused by grease. And that's not counting the costs to individual homeowners when their pipes get blocked.

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